CoachingOurselves (CO) is a management development approach in which managers learn from one another by reflecting on their own experience and working together on the challenges their organizations face. Session materials have been developed by leading management thinkers including David Ulrich, Michael Beer, Marshall Goldsmith, and Henry Mintzberg. 

In CoachingOurselves development sessions, managers learn from one another through discussion and the sharing of experience, guided by the materials provided. Participants arrive with no laptops—only a pen and a printout of that week’s topic. No additional preparation or follow-up work is required.

Groups discuss each topic through the lens of their own experience and draw practical conclusions about its contribution to their work, their department, and the wider organization. Through CoachingOurselves, managers develop individually while the group evolves into a team capable of playing a critical role in organizational change.

During the process:

• Participants share current experience while CO provides the topics, themes, and concepts
• Managers learn by examining their own experience in light of conceptual material
• The resulting learning is brought back into the workplace to enable change
• Insights from new experience enrich the sessions that follow.

Knowledge already exists within people. CO brings that knowledge to the surface and turns it into a valuable shared learning resource. It is a distinctive approach to leader development, social learning, and peer learning that cannot be replicated by reading alone.

Current CoachingOurselves learning and development topics include: